Revelry in Venice Metal Print

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"Revelry in Venice"

A digital pastel painting of two revelers aside a canal at the Carnival of Venice (Carnevale de Venezia), an annual Italian festival that coincides with our own New Orleans Mardi Gras. The extravagant Venetian costumes and volto masks are among the most stunning of any of the worldwide spring festivals. I used vibrant hues of cobalt blue, violet purple and just a touch of mauve on a black, white and gray background for the revelers. Loosely based on a photograph. Please visit my Portraiture art gallery to see more of my portrait artwork.

Contests and Awards:
6.18.23 FAA "Summer Carnival Workshop" Contest: 3rd Place
3.25.18 FAA "People Celebrating Spring" Contest: 1st Place (tie)

This image was honored by being featured in the following outstanding gallery groups at Fine Art America:
Waiting Room Art
Worldly Art
The SPACE Between
Your Very Best Photography
Pictures for Present
Surreal Perspectives
The Artistic Aperture<...

My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...